Jewish Columbia students recount wild library takeover by anti-Israel protesters

A Jewish Columbia University novice alleged that he and his friends were shoved and he was elbowed in the ribs after a violent anti-Israel mob took over a library on campus Wednesday It felt like a stampede My friends and I were shoved it wasn t clear if it was because we were Jewish or it was just a mob action Later when I was in the lobby of the library a supporter of the demonstrators walked past me and elbowed me in the ribs It was surreal a Columbia Ph D participant originally from Israel described Fox News Digital He commented that the demonstration inside Columbia s Butler Library in which hundreds of masked agitators swarmed the building pushing inhabitants safety officers as they forced their way inside kept him stranded inside for three hours in an extremely hostile ecosystem while he was trying to research The Ph D scholar declared that population safety officers were able to put the room on lockdown after or minutes but that swarms of demonstrators attempted to push their way past them from both directions COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SHARES HOW PROTESTERS 'CONQUERED' CLASS AND DISTRIBUTED ANTISEMITIC PROPAGANDA There s this mass rush of people swept in they were all wearing masks the keffiyehs came out the masks came out There was a lot of shoving the mob inside was really just trying to ram through the protection he recounted Fox News Digital Eventually population safety personnel escorted him outside the main room of the library into the lobby The aspirant who was wearing a yarmulke claimed that at that time a woman walked past him and elbowed him in the ribs The Ph D participant advised Fox News Digital that he was also subject to antisemitic verbal abuse by the unruly mob and that this was far from the first time I was called a genocider I was called a perpetual victim That was just the previous day he mentioned Columbia acting president Claire Shipman condemned the demonstration as utterly unacceptable The rabble-rousers were seen putting stickers over assurance cameras vandalizing desks and bookshelves in the library chanting Long live the intifada and pounding on drums and screaming through bullhorns as frustrated undergrads attempted to examination for their upcoming finals according to students present at the time The words Columbia will burn the martyrs were scrawled across a library display episode according to the Columbia Jewish and Israeli Students social media account Another social media account displayed a demonstrator yelling Don t let this guy in he s a f king Zionist when a Jewish novice attempted to enter the library COLUMBIA ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTER MAHMOUD KHALIL CAN BE DEPORTED JUDGE RULES I was in shock I couldn t believe what was happening Columbia sophomore Josh Segal described Fox News Digital Segal who had just left the library to grab a coffee when the commotion started declared he heard demonstrators who were prevented from entering the library chanting for Hamas Al Qassam brigades The Al Qassam brigades are the Hamas military troops who perpetrated the Oct terrorist attack which saw nearly people killed thousands wounded and over kidnapped It was utter pandemonium There were hundreds of students studying and doing work Everyone was in utter shock The students who were doing work were forced to leave announced Columbia senior Eden Yadegar It s finals and I m already far behind I couldn t do work the whole day because my stuff is stuck there They chanted The worst terrorists are American imperialists Personally I think Hamas is up there Segal mentioned There were arrests after the episode police sources reported Fox News Digital which Yadegar praised as a step in the right direction for the university which has become a lightning rod for antisemitism following the Oct terrorist attack Yadegar who double majors in Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies maintains the protesters are misrepresenting their healing by the populace safety officers at the scene The protesters are trying to spin this narrative that they were brutalized by population safety that they held them hostage in the building Populace safety did everything they could to keep students safe and encouraged them to leave the building All they had to do was show their IDs to leave They refused to do that because they re hiding their identities like the terrorists they dress up as and emulate she commented CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Yadegar mentioned she hopes the university suspends or expels the violent entitled self-centered demonstrators They re disrupting the university they re spewing vile antisemitic things making a mockery of a very real war and the fact that there s American hostages being held hostage by a terrorist organization she announced